Early Childhood Cl questions super scheme fairness

Early Childhood Council continues to question fairness of
new super scheme

"NZEI's spokesperson Colin Tarr's press
release, in which he tries both to defend the Government's
discriminatory actions towards early childhood teachers and
attack the Early Childhood Council as a bad employer, shows
he must be visiting from another planet," says Sue Thorne,
the Council's CEO.

"Tarr needs to brush up on his facts,
neither the Government nor the Council are employers of
early childhood teachers. The Council will however continue
to point out that taxpayers' money, intended to support
state employees, is being siphoned off to a select group of
early childhood teachers employed by non-government
organisations, who happen to be mainly NZEI members, and
which is now revealed to have been secretly negotiated by
NZEI with the Minister," says Mrs Thorne.

"Tarr suggests
the Council keep quiet and instead set up some similar
superannuation scheme for the remaining 10,000 early
childhood teachers. We would love to, if between NZEI and
the Minister they could again convince their cabinet
colleagues to hand over a substantial amount of taxpayer
money, which they seem to have easy access to."

"NZEI is
supposed to be a representative of teachers and yet it goes
out of its way to criticise the Council for blowing the
whistle on this dodgy deal and trying to get a fair deal for
all early childhood teachers. NZEI has failed in its
fundamental role and should be ashamed. And early childhood
teachers, who have been discriminated against and the public
should see where the finger points," said Mrs Thorne.

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